The Bob Newhart Show: Have You Met Miss Dietz?

The Bob Newhart Show: Have You Met Miss Dietz?
CBS
October 20, 1973
Sitcom
DVD
B

Bill Idelson wrote this story about the impact of Emily's newly divorced friend Marilyn Dietz (33-year-old Mariette Hartley) on the main five characters, especially when Emily matchmakes, or at least introduces, Marilyn to her two single male friends.  (We find out that Howard has been divorced three years.)  Also, Marilyn encourages Carol to stand up to her bosses at work, so Carol tells off Jerry, and then apologizes, saying she's "swacked."  Bob is caught in the middle, especially at the paint party.  It's interesting to hear all the controversial topics, like gun control and abortion, that Marilyn is encountering now that she's gone back to college, since BNS tended to stay away from hot-button issues of the sort that All in the Family and Maude were dealing with.

David Fresco, who plays Mr. Brown, was Wesley on That Girl.